This book opens the door to the effects of intellectual, educational, and economic
colonization of young children throughout the world. Using a postcolonial lens on current …

This essay is an attempt to use the concept of fetish for an inquiry—begun elsewhere (Pels
nd; Van Dijk and Pels 1996)—into the place of materiality in present-day cultural and social …

This book looks at the multiple relations between the ethnographic representations of the
Montagnard ethnic groups in the Central Highlands of Vietnam and the changing historical …

This book is the result of a conference with the title" Border Fetishisms" that was held in
December 1995 at the Research Centre Reli gion and Society at the University of …

Today's world is shaped by an obsession with cultural difference that penetrates everyday
life and matters of state in unprecedented ways. Culture and cultural difference are …

On a visit to a northern province in the 1950s, Hô Chí Minh, who had spent many years
during the war with the French living with upland peoples in northern Vietnam, asked local …

This is a comprehensive introduction to the social and cultural anthropology of South-East
Asia. It provides an overview of the major theoretical issues and themes which have …

Anthropologists who talk about ethics generally mean the code of practice drafted by a
professional association for implementation by its members. As this book convincingly …

Recent demands for accountability in 'data management'by funding agencies, universities,
international journals and other academic institutions have worried many anthropologists …

How should we tell the histories of academic disciplines? All too often, the political and
institutional dimensions of knowledge production are lost beneath the intellectual debates …